Michael Dyer hasn’t played a down of football since the end of the 2011 season. After leaving the Auburn program in early 2012 following a late-season suspension, he transferred to Arkansas State, where he had to sit out a year. But he was dismissed from that team, too, and ended up at Arkansas Baptist.

There, he spent time growing up, he told KTHV-TV reporter Mark Edwards. At age 22, the former BCS national championship game MVP while at Auburn wants to press the restart button—at Arkansas.

Michael Dyer has gone from MVP of the BCS national championship game to a player looking for a program that will take him. (AP Photo)

Dyer will graduate from Arkansas Baptist this spring.

“I was asked to sit out a year,” Dyer said on the broadcast. “I was asked to do a lot of changing and maturing to become a better person and a better football player. I spent this whole year doing exactly what I was asked to so that I could reach some of the goals that I knew later that I wanted to do.”

Dyer is from Arkansas. When then-Auburn offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn took the head job at Arkansas State in 2012, Dyer followed him. But a police video was released in July showing Dyer being pulled over in March and allegedly found with marijuana and a gun—findings that were reportedly covered up police. He was kicked off the team. Malzahan has moved on and is head coach at Auburn.

Dyer moved on, too, but wants back in at the FBS level.

“If I was given the chance, I would definitely do the best that I can for (Arkansas) and for the coaches and for the fans,” he said. “To be able to play at home, I think any kid would love that dream to come back home and start over and play at home. But I’m just, your know, sitting here, I’m going to play it out and I’m going to let God do the rest for me.”